Comment: Without Western nor Russian help, a refusal to surrender forebodes a swift conclusion to a rebel group bent on defying the Taliban:

The Taliban has declared the war in Afghanistan over, but a bloodbath is on the cards in an isolated valley north of Kabul, after a defiant local warlord and ousted Afghan fighters who fled there rejected a Taliban ultimatum. Lying some 150km (93 miles) north of Kabul, the Panjshir Valley is sealed off by mountains and offers invaders only one way in: through a narrow river gorge. Panjshir is easily defensible, and it's here that warlord Ahmad Massoud has been gathering fighters willing to resist Taliban rule.

The valley's inhabitants are mostly of Tajik ethnicity, while the Taliban are a predominantly Pashtun force. Massoud has rallied these Tajiks under the banner of his National Resistance Front (NRF), a rebranding of the National United Front (Northern Alliance) led by his father, Ahmad Shah Massoud.

For the past week, his son has also welcomed former Afghan officials to his valley redoubt. Ousted vice president Amrullah Saleh and former defense minister Bismillah Mohammadi have taken refuge with the Northern Alliance, along with soldiers of the Afghan National Army and special forces who refused to surrender to the Taliban along with their comrades.

Recent videos on social media show columns of men and vehicles arriving in the valley with Northern Alliance flags, and photos posted by pro-alliance accounts show fighters preparing for combat with drills and maneuvers. Taliban forces are closing in on Panjshir, bringing with them American arms and vehicles looted in the wake of the US withdrawal. Save for some US weapons brought by Afghan National Army troops, the NRF is relying on older stockpiles of Soviet arms.

Taliban commanders have reportedly given Massoud until Sunday evening to surrender, but the warlord is not ready to capitulate, and instead wants to negotiate a "comprehensive government" for Afghanistan in which the Taliban share power, Al-Arabiya reported. Should the militants refuse dialog, war would be "unavoidable," Al-Arabiya quoted him as saying.

Russian ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov described the Panjshir resistance as doomed.

"They have no military prospects. There are not many people there. As far as we know they have 7,000 armed people. And they already have problems with fuel. They tried to fly a helicopter but they have no petrol and no supplies. We can't wave reality aside. [The Taliban] are the de facto authorities. There is no alternative to the Taliban in Afghanistan."

Update 23/8/2021: Meanwhile, Taliban forces recaptured three districts in northern Afghanistan that fell to local militia groups last week:

The districts of Bano, Deh Saleh, Pul e-Hesar in Baghlan province were taken by local militia groups in one of the first signs of armed resistance to the Taliban since their seizure of the capital Kabul on Aug. 15.

Late on Sunday, the Taliban's Alemarah information service said hundreds of fighters were heading towards Panjshir but there has been no immediate confirmation of any fighting.

Zabihullah Mujahid said the Salang Pass, on the main highway running from southern Afghanistan to the north, was open and enemy forces were blockaded in the Panjshir valley. But his statement suggested that there was no fighting for the moment.

"The Islamic Emirate is trying to resolve the problems peacefully," Zabihullah said.

Comment: There is no price Israel can (or will) pay to rectify decades of death and abuse.

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Comment: The situation is such that, with every piece of data the 'facts' are changing all the time, even politicians and the experimental injection manufacturers give conflicting statistics and advice, and so how can anyone confidently claim to be the arbiter of what is or is not misinformation with regards to the coronavirus and lockdowns?

Although, really, that's giving the situation the benefit of the doubt, because it's clear that what's actually happening is that banks and other institutions, in league with governments, are doing everything they can to tighten the screws on dissenters in order to silence them. This agenda has become blatantly clear by the gradual enforcement of injection IDs which block those who do not suffer the injections from the necessities of life in an attempt to coerce as many as possible into compliance:

• Macron announces vaccine passport restricting access to stores, healthcare, public transit on national holiday: Protests erupt across France
• UK Police Chief: 'Now is really not the time for freedom of speech, right to assembly'
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Comment: They locked around 8.2 million people in NWS because there were 830 cases, which means 830 positive PCR tests, and only 3 allegedly deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.

According to official NSW statistics, there are other conditions and diseases that have a considerably higher mortality rate than Covid.

For example, Cancers and Circulatory diseases are the top 2 reasons for death in NSW, and Covid-19 is not among the top 15 death reasons.

Until now, NSW has recorded 128 Covid-deaths since the Corona circus started. If we do a little math, we can see the death rate is 0.00156%.
If we do the same math for malignant diseases, we have a mortality rate of 0.189%. It has a 120 times higher mortality rate than Covid-19.

Have we seen the government do something about that?
Will they start helping and advising people on how to protect themselves from that?

Most likely, It will never happen.
They don't care about people's health actually. They care about imposing fear, so they can have absolute control over people's lives.

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• Australia extends Covid lockdown for Melbourne another week
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• Melbourne police force protesters to wear muzzles before arresting at 'Freedom Day' rally against fascist lockdown